Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, is the recent recipient of the Stevens Institute of Technology honor award medallion for notable achievement for his invention of the electron microscope. The microscope played an important part in war industry and modern medical research...
...space itself, the spaceships (if ever constructed) may meet their worst perils. The region outside the atmosphere is not mere emptiness. It is chockfull, among other things, of searing X rays from the sun, electron-streams hot out of sunspots, powerful cosmic rays from the depths of space. These are checked by the atmosphere before they smack the earth's surface. Their possible effect on the crew of a comparatively thin-skinned spaceship is something to dampen the enthusiasm even of astronauts...
...that their mighty betatron, which generates 100 million-volt X rays, had shattered not only atoms but also attacked the sub-atomic particles themselves. Bombarding neutrons and protons with their powerful X ray, the G.E. men had produced mesons*-particles whose mass is partway between a proton and an electron...
...scientifically induced Doomsday. They know the gun is loaded, but their fingers itch to try the trigger. They have a pretty good idea about how to attack this scientifically fascinating problem. Their most powerful cyclotrons and betatrons shoot out particles with energies up to 100,000,000 electron-volts. This is practically no energy at all, said Professor Wheeler. From outside the earth's atmosphere a wealth of high-energy particles is constantly showering down. By studying these cosmic rays, Professor Wheeler believes, we may learn the ultimate secret: how to totally transform matter-any & every kind of matter...
...element is a substance each of whose atoms contains the same number of electrons. Until recently, scientists thought there were 92 elements, ranging from hydrogen (with one electron circling round its nucleus) to uranium (with 92). All the intervening numbers had been accounted for. So the chemists sat back, feeling that their long search for elements had been completed...